Medal Monday: Running to the Solstice.

June 19, 2017.Reading time 8 minutes.

Since the road races around here don’t give out medals… can I still call this a Medal Monday? …Rolling the stroller with my son in it up to the back of the pack, readying for takeoff, I didn’t have a game plan. I never do when I’m competing in any way. My plan develops as […]

Your brain on its first stroller run.

August 26, 2015.Reading time 4 minutes.

At my annual review, my boss informed me that he wanted me to do more writing. I cannot remember the last time I put out a column for our section. I’m just going to go with: that time I kayaked on my front lawn. Sounds good enough. Formulating thoughts for a column, especially limited to a […]

She ran a 5k.

August 4, 2014.Reading time 8 minutes.

I have two sisters. An older and a younger one. Smack dab in the middle I am. For the longest time, my older sister and I were super close (after 12 years of her hating my guts). I even lived with her for seven months of my life back in my 20s. We’re still close, […]

You know, that OTHER gym.

April 30, 2013.Reading time 4 minutes.

I don’t know about everywhere else, but Spring finally decided to spring into action here on the coast in Maine at about 5:02 p.m. last Thursday. It’s decided to stick around, and now the weathermen are crying that we NEED rain. Please, after an entire month of it and a good snowfall winter? My quarry […]